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Ecclesiastes 9:3-5
Lexham English Bible

3 This is the injustice[a] that is done under the sun:
    the same fate comes to everyone.
Also the hearts of humans[b] are full of evil;
    delusion is in their hearts during their lives, and then they die.

Death Deprives Humans of Everything in Life

4 Whoever is joined[c] to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion! 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:3 Literally “evil”
  2. Ecclesiastes 9:3 Literally “the sons of the man”
  3. Ecclesiastes 9:4 The Kethib reads “chosen,” but the Qere as well as all the versions and numerous medieval Hebrew manuscripts read “joined”
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